Every issue of Victorian Periodicals Review includes reviews of new academic titles related to #periodicals studies. If you're a scholar interested in reviewing for VPR, just visit rs4vp.org/vpr to volunteer and indicate your areas of expertise. @rs4vp.org #RSVP2025

Graphic design of the two book covers of Colby Prize winners in ovals on a navy blue back with white wavy design. Text reads, "2025 Colby Book Prize Winners - Congratulations!"

As announced at the close of #RSVP2025, congratulations are in order to our two Colby Book Prize winners, Andrew Lewis and @tejapusapati.bsky.social! You can read what our committee has to say about these fantastic additions to the field of periodical studies here: rs4vp.org/awards/colby...

Home from my holidays (and #RSVP2025) exhausted, wet, and poor. Do get in touch from Monday if you have research, writing, or editing needs!

Since the index expansion was supported by a Patrick Leary Field Development Grant in 2024 it was especially heartwarming to share it in person at #RSVP2025 among many colleagues whose work helped me in development, including @patrickleary.bsky.social himself of course. Great conference all around!

If, like me, you missed out on being at #RSVP2025, check out @marielsj.bsky.social’s timeline for stellar live posting from the end of last week! Wonderful to have these insights into what was clearly, as ever, a fascinating set of papers on the diversity of C19 periodicals 📚

Hot on the heels of #RSVP2025, here is the latest from the field, a fitting continuation of the wonderful work you, our dear followers, do on a daily basis! Give it a read!

@ehaugtvedt.bsky.social also live-posted this panel!

#RSVP2025

#RSVP2025

Speaker at a lectern in lower left. Large projector screen shows images of eight different periodicals.

The images of various elocution periodicals were so fascinating! #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions

My own presentation was about how periodical sketches by Leigh Hunt and Dickens mediated the effects of London's urban development as it blurred spatial boundaries and class lines—and offer ways of reading how histories of civil unrest are overwritten by civic development #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions

As usual, a fabulous time was had much learned at #RSVP2025. Next year can soak it all up (the “knowledge”) with brown bread and butter everyday.

Breakfast (still jet lagged so early!) the morning after #rsvp2025 #voicesandvisions and it only felt right to buy a paper after a lot of discussion of the uncertain future of print... Brilliant conference and so nice to catch up with friends and make new ones.

Thank you to all the brilliant organisers, panellists, and friends who made #RSVP2025 such a nourishing, collegial, and stimulating few days. My heart, brain, and stomach are so full!

I’m so impressed with the live tweeting of #rsvp2025 by @marielsj.bsky.social — if you want a good overview of the excellent scholarship at this year’s conference, read her posts

That's a wrap on #RSVP2025! Thank you all for your camaderie and wonderful papers! See you next year for #RSVP2026 at Trinity College Dublin!!

Wooohooo! the crowd errupts with joy at learning that #RSVP2026 will be held at Trinity College Dublin, 23-25 July! 🥳

#RSVP2025

Cover of Werner's Magazine from the 1890s, featuring numerous adverts.

The advertising wrapper of Werner's Magazine features many products using the election teacher Delsarte's name - from Sloper's School of Oratory to corsets claiming to aid speech! Werner's in particular covered speech therapy and disorders. #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions

A nod to @nmhouston.bsky.social's talk this morning: the records at Google Books & @hathitrust.bsky.social do not provide the same title

Google: *Expression: A Quarterly Review of Art, Literature, and ...,* (id=KOPyAAAAMAAJ)
Hathi: *Expression; official organ of the School of Expression*
#RSVP2025

TO BE ISSUED QUARTERLY. EXPRESSION VOICE BODY MIND ART LITERATURE THE SPOKEN WORD CONTENTS FOR JUNE, 1895. [...] VOL. I Copyright, 1895, The School of Expression. All rights reserved. Entered at the Post Office in Boston as second-class matter. NO. 1. EDITED BY S. S. CURRY, PhD., AND OTHER TEACHERS. PUBLISHED BY THE SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION, 458 Boylston St., Boston. One Dollar a Year. Twenty-five Cents a Number. Source: @hathitrust.bsky.social‬ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000054450923&seq=11

I just love the masthead for this 1895-1897 quarterly magazine out of Boston...

#RSVP2025

Prof Camlot stands in front of his PowerPoint, which features two pages of the 19thC Chicago periodical The Elecutionist.

Enjoying Prof Jason Camelot's Wolff lecture on voice, sound, and elocution in the 19thC American periodical press. Periodicals were serialised textbooks for oratory schools and election performances, as correspondence courses. But why is Chicago seemingly the hub for public speakers? #RSVP2025

Jason Camlot’s fascinating plenary lecture at #rsvp2025 on the figure of voice in C19 periodicals of speech and elocution #victorian #19th-c

Jason praised Linda Hughes's reading of one of his poems from this collection as she introduced him for the Wolff Lecture of #RSVP2025, pointing out he must be the only Wolff Lecturer who is a published poet...

Go Montréal go, GO HABS GO!

The Periodicals that Puzzled Dickens: The Weekly Balance Sheets of the Preston Lock-Out, 1853–1854 | Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Charles Dickens was puzzled and intrigued by a type of print publication which was central to the Preston strike and lock-out of 1853–1854 and hundreds of other industrial disputes in the nineteenth century, the strike balance sheet. This first academic ...

I don't know if I missed it or if he humbly didn't mention it, but
@drewhobbs.bsky.social published on these balance sheets in *Transactions of the @historicsoclandc.bsky.social*

True to form, it's #OpenAccess #OpenScience 🥳

#RSVP2025

I didn't think to share the link for the @rs4vp.org starter kit at the beginning of #RSVP2025!

Click on it to be able to easily follow fellow RSVP peeps, and reply if you'd like me to add you 😛

Late to the game, but enjoying Meaghan Scott’s presentation on trauma response in Dickens’ Hard Times! #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions

Juliet Shields is not on @bsky.app, so I won't live-post about her "Scottish Networks and London Periodicals" talk... I'll take a break for my poor little back...

#RSVP2025

The printer's miscellany. - Canadiana The printer's miscellany. : Saint John, N.B. : H. Finlay, [1876-1882]

@sarahpelletier.bsky.social's talk is about the misogynistic humour in *The Printer’s Miscellany*"

It was advertized—but crucially only twice!—as half price for women (50¢, same price as for boy apprentices).

No female names appear in the list of its contributors.

#RSVP2025 #BookHistory

The printer's miscellany. - Canadiana The printer's miscellany. : Saint John, N.B. : H. Finlay, [1876-1882]

Next up @sarahpelletier.bsky.social

"Wives, Sisters, Daughters, and Sometimes Workers: Women Typesetters and the Patriarchal Voice of *The Printer’s Miscellany*"

🇨🇦 typographical trade publication from St. John's, New Brunswick digitized by Canadiana (@crkn-rcdr.bsky.social)

#RSVP2025 #BookHistory

The strike balance sheets are very close to orality and "take us into the workplace, the pub, the street, to hear everyday language".

@drewhobbs.bsky.social is wondering what strike balance sheets remind you of and any theoretical frameworks that would help him make sense of them.

#RSVP2025

Here are the sections (or voices) in the strike balance sheets, according to @drewhobbs.bsky.social's research:

1️⃣ opening address
2️⃣ verse, epigraphs
3️⃣ lists of donators
4️⃣ nicknames
5️⃣ threats

#RSVP2025